apr 1, 1884 - Depression Politics: Job lesson the March: Coxey’s Army

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American Conservatives were concerned over the class war between capital in labor due to the increase in jobless people. a March to Washington in 1894 with thousands of unemployed people led by Jacob A. Coxey, or Coxey’s army, have computer concerns. They made demands for the federal government to spend $500 million on public work programs to create more jobs.

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